God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

Property is a nuisance.

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

I was once in darkness, but now, I see a bright light on my path.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

Hard work is the key to any achievement.

Incense is prayer That drives no bargain. Child learn from incense How best to pray.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for "as he thinketh within himself, so is he."

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.